The main door opens inwards the little glass/screen door opens outwards. In this pic there is no way for him to open the door without hitting the drinks.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol this is actually tame. You could open a slight gap, then use your left hand and reach out and grab the stuff.

In my house, theres like like more "wall" area before you can open it all the way like this:

What's worse is that there are steps in front of the door, and the top step ends where the "wall" area ends. So I have to open the door by a lot to actually reach outside, by which point any drinks would spill, right down tge steps.

Luckily, my storm door is designed so that I can remove the glass pane, so I don't have to open the door to get it. Drinks saved! (I mean, my other option is, walk out the back door so that I can walk all the way around my block to the front.)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a similar setup. I’m fortunate enough to have a garage though. So I can easily go around if I need to.

You could also try propping your screen door open when waiting for a food delivery. I would do this with mine but then it blocks the doorbell. I got a little mini folding wooden table I can leave out, and put a sign indicating to leave the food there. (I also don’t like my food bags touching the ground because I’m a germaphobe. Though I’m sure their filthy DoorDash cars are dirtier than my door mat.)

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

also don’t like my food bags touching the ground because I’m a germaphobe.

Lol, I have have some germaphobia, but you kinda need to let go of the fear (even if just a little bit) if you ever want food delivery.

I'd just have hand-sanitizing wipes that I use to wipe the entire exterior surface of any bags it comes in and also wipe the exterior of any containers of drinks, and its good enough to calm down my germaphobia. (and obviously also wipe my hands afterwards too)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why isn't your food order handed to you personally? Ring the doorbell, wait for someone to open up, give the food. Just like the pizza delivery guy in porn movies. Why would you leave food near the door... I don't get it. Or a package, same story. Hand it to someone or bring it to a neighbor. I've never heard of porch poachers over here because packages are never left unattended at people their houses.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some delivery people are lazy. Especially with packages, some won’t even ring the bell!

For DoorDash, I try to make sure I track them on the app and am at my door to meet them when they get here.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Over here they're not allowed to leave it unattended, unless the house owner specified on the website it's allowed to leave it a certain point outside the house. Otherwise it's just free loot for anyone to take. It's only covered by insurance if it gets stolen from within your house. But only if your house is locked, otherwise the insurance company isn't scared to do some victim blaming. So it's crazy to just leave stuff out in the open.

But to be fair, delivery people are often treated like shit. So I kinda get it why they would prefer to avoid contact. A friend of mine does grocery deliveries, the stories I hear from her of how people treat her. Fucking insane. Maybe if we start to treat others with respect like we would like to be treated ourselves... But goes both ways. When you leave drinks just outside an outside opening door, I kinda get it why people get mad at you.

Its the same with my cats. Constantly complaining I'm nog giving them enough food. When I'm giving them food, they complain it's not fast enough. When they're done eating, it's complaining they didn't get enough again so they start to throw my stuff from tables and desks. They treat me like shit but expect perfect service (they are in their puberty, they are driving me insane but I love them very much).

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

The door looks high enough to come over the drinks, but I do have bad depth perception. If not, I think there's room to squeeze a person out the side of the door and get the delivery, but you wouldn't want to fling the door open.